(of a child) obedient, well-behaved / clever / shrewd / alert / perverse / contrary to reason / irregular / abnormal
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(of a child) well-behaved / obediently / (term of endearment for a child) darling / sweetie
goodness gracious! / oh my lord!
clever (child) / smart / lovable / cute
well-behaved girl / good girl
good little boy (or girl)
peculiar / eccentric
recalcitrant / unreasonable / peevish
stubborn / contrary / disobedient
perverse (behavior) / disagreeable (character)
to part / to separate / to deviate
perceptive / alert / clever / shrewd
ridiculous / abnormal
stubborn / contrary / disobedient
obedient (colloquial)
to take sth as a lesson for next time (idiom) / once bitten, twice shy
(coll.) to speak in a clever and lovable way
to learn one's lesson the hard way
to have benefited from sth but pretend otherwise / to claim to be hard done by, even though one has benefited
to behave ingratiatingly
bad times, adverse fate (idiom)
to curry favor by showing obeisance (idiom)
to show off one's cleverness / (of sb who has received beneficial treatment) to profess to have been hard done by
Definitions from CC-CEDICT · 125,326 source records · Release 2026-10-27